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Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

Tokyo Olympics: Keep The Vibes Coming

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

News, Soccer, Sports News, Sports

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The USWNT course corrected on Saturday with a 6-1 win over New Zealand, and Meg and Steph Yang are back with analysis of the second day of group stage matches from the Tokyo Olympics. Plus, from Barbra Banda to Brazil to Blackstenius, we review all the action after we break down what went right for the U.S. and what still needs cleaning up before they face Australia on Tuesday. For all our Olympic women’s soccer coverage at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/tag/tokyo-2020-womens-soccer/ Our guide to the tournament (free and unlocked to read): https://theathletic.com/2711374/2021/07/16/tokyo-2020-olympics-womens-football-soccer-guide/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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tan later at sunexpress.com and secure your seats today. Hello, Meg Linahan here and Steph Young and I are back for your instant analysis following the second day of group stage matches in Japan. The U.S. women's national team

0:56.0

got back to their winning ways against New Zealand, but groups F and G brought the vibes and

1:01.5

the goals across the board, while Group A remained a little more muted affair as Canada and

1:07.3

Team GB picked up wins. Before we get into it, you can subscribe to The Athletic

1:11.6

for all of our women's soccer coverage and beyond. There's always a deal for you at theathletic.com

1:17.1

slash full time. All right, Steph. Let's just start. I mean, you look at the scoreline

1:25.8

6-1 for USA versus New Zealand, and maybe if you don't watch that

1:30.7

game, you're thinking, all right, well, that's pretty good, right? That was a weird game, though.

1:36.3

That is so wild to say about a 6-1 scoreline that, like, yeah, it flatters the United States a little

1:42.2

bit. It was a little bit.

1:47.3

It was a weird game.

1:48.5

That's what I've got.

1:51.6

Four goals in a row called back for offside.

1:52.5

Yeah.

1:56.4

So technically, the ball went in the net ten times,

2:04.7

but those four callbacks, like, it kept happening. So I'm new zealand wasn't relieved like each time it happened i think each time it happened it just made it worse and worse and worse and worse

2:07.9

thinking like eventually one of these is not going to be off and that's what happened yeah what was

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